Posted on 01/17/2003 10:52:17 PM PST by chance33_98
1) If you believe that the purpose of feminism is to fight for women's rights, then the limp response by NOW to the Taliban is nonsensical. But, if you understand that feminism is merely one disguise that the liberals use to advance their agenda, then things become a little clearer. Liberalism's mission statement is the destruction of Western Culture and Western Man. Socialism has been locked in a death struggle with traditional Western Culture for so long, that the lefties have become obsessed with our demise. They would sell their souls to the devil to destroy us. As such, they could care less what happens to women in Afghanistan, as their fate will not affect their main goal. (notice that they are so obsessed with hatred of us that they even make a few lame attempts to blame westerners for the sorry state of women in Afghanistan...talk about twisted logic). This phenomenon is similar to old world anti-semitism, where eveything imaginable was blamed on the Jews...often by the most tortured logic.
2) Notice how the adoption of a secular, relativistic worldview results in the elimination of the concept of "evil". If you come to believe that people who do bad things are "products of their environment" or are "following other, nonwestern cultures"....then the concept of evil has no meaning. When this happens, then all violence has an equal, negative standing regardless of the context. Thus, the violence that destroyed the Taliban is in the same category as the violence that destroyed the Twin Towers.
A healthy culture which understands the existence of evil will look upon its boys as a valuable asset. Their greater physical prowess (as opposed to girls) is vital to the survival of the culture and the struggle against evil that arises in the world. Such cultures carefully teach boys to master their physical natures and to channel their abilities in positive directions (often through simulated warfare such as contact sports and martial arts). This makes them more effective when evil comes knocking.
A relativistic culture which denies the reality of evil in the universe looks at the physical nature of boys as a pathology. They need "conflict resolution" training and "anger management". The proliferation of such attitudes alienates boys from their culture and reinforces in themselves that they are inherently defective.
liberalism = relativism = no evil = all violence is bad = boys are pathological = alienation = ritalin
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